Frédéric Chopin: Piano

Frédéric Chopin was Polish composer. Explore interesting quotes on piano.
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Frédéric Chopin quote: “I tell my piano the things I used to tell you”

“I tell my piano the things I used to tell you”

Frédéric Chopin

“It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.”

Frédéric Chopin
Soul

“Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!”

Frédéric Chopin

As quoted in Chopin and the Swedish Nightingale.
Source: Jorgensen's Chopin and the Swedish Nightingale (2003), p. 26

Suffering , Despair

“I dream music but I cannot make any because here there are not any pianos . . . in this respect this is a savage country.”

Frédéric Chopin

Letter to Camille Pleyel.
Context: My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot make any because here there are not any pianos... in this respect this is a savage country.

Dreams , Music , Country

“My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot make any because here there are not any pianos... in this respect this is a savage country.”

Frédéric Chopin

Letter to Camille Pleyel.
Source: (21 November 1838); published in Fryderyk Chopin, Korespondencja Fryderyka Chopina (1955), edited by Bronisław Edward Sydow, (2 vols.), Vol. 1, p. 443

Music , Making love , Dreams , Country